"Alcohol...has to be purchased on the flight"....the only FAA reg is that the alcohol has to be SERVED by a member of the crew(FA)....the booze is free in First and business....

I don't usually drink the whole bottle we purchase for drinks on short trips (stop laughing, Kal) and have had no problem taking what's left on the second leg of the journey. We did have an open bottle of wine one trip left over from a stay at a hotel airport the night before and outside of the security agent opening it, taking a whiff and letting everybody know what cheapo wine drinkers we were (just kidding) nothing was said.

I wrote a complaint letter to United after my last flight and they sent me a bunch of free drink coupons. I guess they figure you can't complain about their lousy service when you are loaded.

good grief cfc and Leona. We are on our way to a bachelorette party...give us a break....and NO it is not for ON the plane, it's for our room. And as for going to a liquor store in Vegas--have you ever tried to go to a liquor store on the strip? There really aren't any (even the new Walgreens on the strip doesn't carry booze!). There are a few places in the casinos themselves, but who wants to pay what they are asking for a bottle of vodka? And we are not renting a car, so we can't go off the strip very easily. (yes, we could cab, but I don't want to be on a scavenger hunt for a liquor store in a cab)

Actually.......if anyone knows a liquor store that is convenient to the south end of the strip--I'd actually appreciate it Otherwise...I'll be bringing some *unopened* bottles on board

Happy travels everyone!

ccolor...whatever you say, Cutie.

Yes, you can bring alcohol on your flight; no, you can't bring your monkey on your flight.

Actually Jack, you can take your monkey on a plane if you are disabled and the monkey is a service animal.

http://www.delta.com/travel/trav_ser...erns/index.jsp

note to Heartburn - apparently alcohol absorbs tupperware too....worst drink i ever had was one mixed in tupperware a few hours prior; you know that taste...old rubber/plastic.

Bru-gal,
I gotta do it...

> "U......C......L......A"

> "U....C....L....A"

> "U...C...L...A"

> "U..C..L..A"

> "UCLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

There...mo bettah now!

I've flown with both opened and unopened bottles of liquor for years. I don't trust putting them in my checked baggage. I've never had a problem. In the last 3 months I've flown to Paris, France, St Louis, Missouri and twice to Houston, Texas. Never once was I asked to show them a bottle. I noticed a decline in them inspecting alcohol bottles about three years ago when they started the random checks with swabbing the bags and using a machine to check for chemicals. Before the machine, they'd ask to open the bottle to sniff it to make sure it was booze.

I do remember one time in the early 90's when I fly out of Key West. A 60-ish lady was working security. She wanted to make sure it was whiskey in the bottle. She had a little thimble on a chain around her neck, topped it off from my bottle, drank it and said, "yes, that's whiskey all right!" I figured with the way party-ers fly in and out of Key West she'd be snockered by lunch time.

Kal - did you ask the Mrs. how to spell that?

and one more time just for sh!ts and giggles ...

"U"

*clap clap clap*

"C"

*clap clap clap"

"L........"

"clap clap clap"

"A"

*clap clap clap*

"U-C-L-A FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!"

Flew from Indianapolis to Dallas on Monday morning. I noticed 4 letter "S" on my boarding pass. I've never noticed that before. As I showed my ID I was directed to Line 6. I didn't know what that meant.

As I stood in Line 6 I noticed everyone in front of me was getting the full search: shoes off and through x-ray machine, handed wanded for metal, my bags completely opened and searched and my bags were swiped with a pad that was put in an analyzer.

Two TSA agents went through my bag completely. Not one comment was made about the glass quart of whiskey that was opened and in my carry-on. They didn't even bother to open it to make sure it was whiskey.